COMING UP

UG Vis175 class exhibition Cut-Up The Guardian: FA24

Nov. 13 (3:30 - 6:00 p.m.), Nov. 14 (1:00 - 3:00 p.m.)

UpThere, 353 Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

The students were asked to create an experimental text collage each using a copy of the first edition of the quarter’s The Guardian newspaper. Lecturer Dino Dinco explained the parallel of the assignment to analog film editing when physical reels of film were cut with blades and reconnected with tape as an editor sought to build sequences and create meaning.

Otherwise Film Festival co-sponsored by Department of Visual Arts

November 13 - November 16, 2024

Various locations at UC San Diego

With participation from MFA alum and staff member Paolo Zuñiga, Professor Lorena Mostajo, and MFA alum Sam Wohl. The OTHERWISE film festival emerges as a pivotal platform that transcends conventional narratives by embracing a comparative and global perspective. By foregrounding marginalized voices and their unique cinematic narratives, OTHERWISE redefines the boundaries of representation in contemporary cinema.

UG student Sarah Obregon Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

Closing Reception: November 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 4 - November 14, 2024

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies is a solo art exhibition about the exploration of the human body by distorting its shapes and sizes. By designing figures experiencing the physical strain and discomfort of their bodies, viewers can contemplate the tangible toll such transformations could impose on these reimagined bodies as well as the human anatomy’s adaptability.

MFA student Sophia Cleary performance Read the Room

November 14 - November 16, 2024

REDCAT, Los Angeles CA

Sophia Cleary announced as a featured artist in REDCAT's 21st annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival! A celebration of #LA's vibrant community of artists creating new performance work, #NOW2024 will take place over three weekends this Fall from Nov. 7-23. Each weekend features three works in a shared evening, with Sophia’s work, READ THE ROOM, premiering during week 2.

MFA & BA alumni contributed on film Dream Team, premiere screenings

November 15, 2024

Metrograph (NYC), Alamo Drafthouse (LA + Austin)

Dream Team is directed by UCSD Media Teaching Lab staff member Lev Kalman, with MFA alumni Alexis Hithe (Assistant Director), John Dombroski (Sound Designer), Sam Wohl (VFX Coordinator), and BA alum Ryan Bradford (Gaffer). In this absurdist homage to 90's basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery. A post-modern, soft-core fever dream.

UG student James DeLisio screening Smoke Signals

November 17, 5:00 p.m.

Digital Gym, San Diego CA

UG James DeLisio’s short documentary “Smoke Signals,” which was supported by the Russell Grant from the Visual Arts Department, will be screening at the Digital Gym Cinema as part of San Diego Film Week on November 17th, at 5:00pm.

MFA alumni Arlene Mejorado, Carrie Mae Weems in Diaries of Home

November 17, 2024 - February 2, 2025

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth TX

Diaries of Home is an exhibition of works by twelve women and nonbinary artists who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home.The artists challenge documentary photography by pushing it into conceptual, performative, and theatrical realms. They probe preconceptions about domestic, familial, and communal spaces in the United States, which are often considered feminine spheres.

Professors Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade screening and talk for Star Choir

November 18, 7:00 p.m. local

Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

MoMA Modern Mondays presents the New York premiere of Star Choir, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade’s film based on their cosmic opera about a starship crew of humans seeking refuge on a hostile planet named 85K: Aurora. The screening will be followed by conversation between composer Malik Gaines, librettist and director Alexandro Segade, and Thomas Lax, curator in the Department of Media and Performance.

Emily Greenberg MFA thesis exhibition Latent Visions

November 18 - November 22, 2024

Reception: November 21, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Latent Visions features two short films that explore generative artificial intelligence as a subject and medium. They investigate what it means to be human in a world increasingly mediated by simulations and representations, reflecting on the harms generative AI poses to one’s sense of self.

Professor Amy Adler artist talk

November 19, 6:00 p.m.

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA

Working across the disciplines of drawing, performance, photography, and film, Adler creates an interplay between mediums that focuses itself on the concept of the film still, realized through layered and nuanced hand-drawn images. Adler will share a special presentation of her career, process, recent projects, and 2024 mural for Murals of La Jolla.

Thinking with the Harrisons: Re-imagining the Arts in the Global Environment Crisis  

November 19, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

Thinking with the Harrisons is for anyone concerned with the implications of ecological thought and practice as a reimagining of public life, including the interaction of art and science. Throughout their joint practice, the Harrisons sought to engage policy makers, governments, ecologists, artists, and the natural world, sensitizing us to the crises that emerge from grounded experiences of place and time.

PhD student Doreen A. Ríos panel discussion A turn that is light

November 19, 7:00 p.m.

Centro Cultural de España en México, Ciudad de México

Rethinking our learning practices through the digital image with Marcela Flores Méndez, Doreen A. Ríos and Sergio Beltrán. A turn that is light talks about the role of the image in the transmission of knowledge and our current learning practices. The conversation is an open panel in which the three guests will talk with the authors of the book “The Photogrammetric Turn”, Andrea Muniáin and Paula Ramos Mollá.

UG Vis180 class exhibition You Earned It

Reception: November 21, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 22, 25, 26, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This is a studio art course for the advanced visual arts major, instructed by Geoffroy Tobe. After guided assignments, emphasis is on self-directed projects and portfolio development. This interdisciplinary course may focus on painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film, video, photography, and new media.

Seaways: Embodied Pacific Project

November 22, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

A PST ART + Science Collide Embodied Pacific Project event featuring screenings and panels navigating Indigenous wayfinding across water, walls, and wildfire. Embodied Pacific features projects by 30 artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites, and archives in SoCal and the Pacific Islands. They invite immersive engagement in oceanography, Indigenous design, and critical craft through exhibitions, workshops, and programs at our six venues.

Future Gardens as Eco-Cultural Collaborations

November 23, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The Harrisons describe their first Future Garden, the Garden of Hot Winds and Warm Rains (1995), proposed for a museum in Bonn as “...a multi-layered story told with artifacts, media events, texts, and living materials, which all together engage the probable Greenhouse future directly. Join us for a panel discussion with people who have collaborated with the Harrisons on Future Gardens including current on the ground proposals.

UG student Tomris Karaismailoglu exhibition I wish you were dead.

November 25 - November 27, 2024

Closing Reception: November 27, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Commons Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

An exhibition on grief, shame and self-hatred in the aftermath of a breakup. bring your own baggage. Presented with the support of Professor dean erdmann.

Announcing publication of issue #08 of Imagined Theatres: BorderS (Part I)


Co-edited by Amy Sara Carroll and Professor Ricardo Dominguez. With contributions from Professors Grant Kester, Lorena Gómez Mostajo, and MFA alumni Cog•nate Collective, Isidro Pérez García, Saúl Hérnandez-Vargas, Omar Pimienta, robyko ∞, and Perry Vásquez.

PhD student Ingrid Asplund awarded Summer Graduate Teaching Scholars Award

Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor

These scholars stood out for their deep engagement with course material, their thoughtful and effective teaching practices, and their ability to leverage available resources to enhance the learning experience. Through active participation in the SGTS community and continuous personal growth as educators, they have demonstrated a strong commitment to excellence in teaching.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell solo exhibition Currents 124

October 25, 2024 - March 9, 2025

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO

In their first solo museum exhibition, Campbell reflects on material histories, archival imagery, and abstraction in a subtle evocation of the Philippine landscape and colonial extraction. Rooted in familial history and the underloved, these new works in blown glass, handmade paper, digital collages, and video evocatively trace the ways in which nature, U.S. colonization of the Philippines, and abstraction are intertwined.

Professor Janelle Iglesias public artwork Text/Tile

Ongoing

Pacific Highlands Ranch Library, San Diego CA

TEXT/TILE is an immersive terra cotta tiled outdoor courtyard commissioned by the Commission for Arts and Culture for the new Pacific Highlands Ranch Library. The project is conceptually tied to the earliest libraries which were comprised of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script. Each tile in the tile set is a letter, creating a word-find with text in English, Spanish and Kumeyaay. Fabricated by Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, MX.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Lecturer Trish Stone, Speculative Design class in exhibition curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD student Clarissa Chevalier Embodied Pacific: Seaways

September 27 - December 6, 2024

Visual Arts Gallery@SME, UC San Diego

Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako.

Professors Amy Adler, PhD student Johnnie Chatman in exhibition Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 26 - December 6, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work

September 28 - December 7, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, BA alum Kimberly Heard in Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier curated Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Memo Akten Boundaries at Venice Biennale

April 20 - November 24, 2024

Venice Biennale, Italy

The Vanhaerents Art Collection is holding it’s third exhibition on the occassion of 60th Venice Biennale. Entitled ‘Boundaries’ which will showcase a digital work that Memo Akten has made on commission for the Vanhaerents Art Collection.

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